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schwabsauce
schwabsauce

Reputation: 447

my flash site often doesn't render until I refresh

http://randomdorm.com

Our client communicates with a Rails backend to get login details and then logs into an Adobe LCCS server. We have been cruising right along but around noon yesterday we developed a bug that causes the swf to not render until you refresh the page. On subsequent refreshes it pops up right away. The problem happened even when I disabled the code that checks in with the Rails server.

How could refreshing make a difference?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 316

Answers (1)

Jacksonkr
Jacksonkr

Reputation: 32247

It sounds like your users visit your page and the swf starts playing before it's fully downloaded and stops once it hits the last loaded frame and doesn't continue to play even when the swf is done loading.

When the user refreshes, the swf has been cached and they load the version they should have been seeing before.

An easy way to fix this is to put a stop() action on the first frame and then add a Event.PROGRESS listener to the main stage's loaderInfo object. When the events bytesLoaded match your bytesTotal then your swf is fully loaded and you can play() your swf at that point (or gotoAndPlay().

Example takes place on the first frame of your project:

function loadProgressHandler(event:Event):void {
    if(event.bytesLoaded >= event.bytesTotal) {
        event.target.removeEventListener(Event.PROGRESS, this.loadProgressHandler);
        play();
    }
}

this.stop();
this.loaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.PROGRESS, this.loadProgressHandler);

Upvotes: 1

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